Re: The flow of money

[Guest guest]

Hi

What a great story and experience!! Very inspiring

to say the least (even if you hadn't meant it to be)

.

Love,

Evie

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> Such a cool experience today, I left Michigan with

> about $25, to

> spend 2 1/2 weeks helping out in Mississippi. I

> spent part of it on

> the bus trip down, bought some sunglasses and an

> alarm clock and

> some junk food, and have only had 55 cents left for

> nearly a week.

> Already have my bus ticket back, so really don't

> need any money.

>

> Earlier today one of the guys I've been working

> with, Jeff, he was

> so upset that he'd received a speeding ticket. The

> guy bought a

> cheap car and came down here with just a few simple

> belongings,

> trusting his needs would be met. He doesn't know

> where money for gas

> will come from (we drive around quite a bit to

> different jobs) and

> then he gets a speeding ticket. He was nearly crying

> when he talked

> about it.

>

> Well, the guy who coordinates the volunteer work,

> Conrad, he

> mentioned that

> one of the places we've been volunteering, the

> homeowner wanted to

> pay us. I didn't care too much either way. Haven't

> seen any money

> from this guy before today, so pretty much forgot

> about it. Well,

> the same day

> Jeff tells he doesn't know how

> he'll pay for the ticket, and he's thinking he might

> get a job he

> saw where he'd deliver newspapers from llpm to

> 1:30am to earn the

> money, later today Conrad hands me an envelope

> and says it's from the guy who's house we've been

> working on. I

> seriously figured it'd be for around $40, taking

> into consideration

> how unskilled we are, we get a lot done but not very

> quickly.

>

> I open it up, and see a hundred dollar bill! And

> two twenties and a

> ten! And right away I think about Jeff, and how

> trusting he was to

> come down here, he had no idea where he'd be living

> or volunteering,

> just had tremendous faith. And I'm so excited about

> passing on that

> hundred dollar bill to him.

>

> A few years back when I was living on the streets, a

> guy gave me

> $100. I'll never forget it. How wonderful the

> universe is.

>

> And I'm also going to give Jeff the book my friend

> wrote about

> Work and Money, that my good friend Roslyn gave me.

> I was kinda

> amazed that I put it with my stuff when I packed to

> come down here,

> but it's so perfect to give to my friend Jeff (wow,

> I have lots of

> friends).

>

> And earlier I used some of the money to buy some

> Easter goodies, and

> will share them with

> my coworkers tomorrow

>

> I love this life and how it works.

>

> Happy Easter,

> Mississippi

>

>

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